A 28 year-old woman named Anna Chapman is accused of being part of a group of eleven people, who have been identified as modern day Russian spies and live undercover in the USA. This is not a new plot for a spy action movie. It’s real life!

Anna is divorced and has a “masters in economics, an online real-estate business, a fancy Financial District apartment and a Victoria’s Secret body”. Anna had weekly meetings with a Russian official to pass information since January 2010. Reality is always stranger than fiction.

The undercover spies lived as normal couples and some even had children together to be more realistic. Ten of the alleged Russian spies were arrested without bail and the other, Christopher Metsos, is currently on the lam.

The federal complaint says “Moscow Center” trained the spies in various ways of secret communication and then sent them here “to become sufficiently Americanized to gather information for Russia.” Based on the information in the court papers, the spies were much better at complaining than spying.

“I’m happy I’m not your handler,” accused moneyman Christopher Metsos told suspect Richard Murphy in a Queens restaurant after listening to Murphy whine about the defective spy equipment he’d been supplied. Metsos is at large.

Another suspect, New Jersey college Prof. Juan Lazario, was recorded complaining to his accused spy wife, Vicky Pelaez, an El Diario-La Prensa columnist, that “they say my information is of no value. … If they don’t like what I tell them, too bad!”

Lazario, the feds say, posed as a Uruguayan but was recorded in 2002 telling his wife about his Russian childhood. “We moved to Siberia,” he reminisced, “as soon as the war started.”

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